English vs. Esperanto (was: too much sugar not good for the health)

[Stewart Gordon]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> torhu wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
<snip>
>>> One reason English is successful is its shamelessness in 
>>> adopting useful words and phrases from other languages.  
>>> Sort of like what D does <g>.
>> 
>> This isn't quite true.  English is 'successful' because of 
>> the dominating position of the US, and earlier the UK.
<snip>
> I did say one reason - there are many.  Some languages look 
> inward, not wanting to accept foreign words.  English, as you 
> say, is mostly foreign words.  Like the blob, English tends to 
> absorb whatever it comes in contact with <g>.

Interesting.  But where does that put Esperanto, with its basic vocabulary being a mixture of languages but having compound words (and translations of Latin abbreviations) all its own?

Stewart.